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  Houston TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads - with nine science and technology instruments - to the Moon's South Pole in 2022, to help lay the foundation for human expeditions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024. The payloads, which include instruments to assess the composition of the lunar surface, test precision landing technologies, and evaluate the radiation on the Moon, are being delivered under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Service ... read more |
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When the Moon dust settles, it won't settle in VIPER's wheelsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 Moon dust is a formidable adversary - the grains are as fine as powder and as sharp as tiny shards of glass. During the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon, the astronauts lamented how the dust found its ... more 
Space Tango wins NASA utilization awards for LEO Commercialization of biomedical applicationsLexington, KY (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 Space Tang reports it has been awarded funding for three projects focused on biomedical application development on the International Space Station (ISS) that will be supported by the NASA Research O ... more  
Journey to a metallic world called PsycheTempe AZ (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission, which is planned to launch in 2022, will travel to an asteroid named Psyche, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid is of part ... more  
Sulfur 'spices' alien atmospheresBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental 'variety' - sulfur - is indeed a 'spice' that can perhaps point to sign ... more |
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Humans are not the first to repurpose CRISPRCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in particular have taken the world by storm. Indeed, scientists have learned how to harness these clever natural sys ... more  
Data from NASA's Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2020 The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants - Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the ... more  
China to launch IoT communications satellites named after WuhanWuhan, China (XNA) Apr 06, 2020 China will launch the first two communications satellites for its space-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) project in mid to late April, with one satellite named after its birthplace Wuhan, according to ... more 
Year's biggest supermoon to light up Tuesday's night skyWashington DC (UPI) Apr 06, 2020 Tuesday night's full moon will be the biggest of the year, as the moon is quite close to its perigee, its closest approach to Earth. ... more 
NASA Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13, 'A Successful Failure'Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 On April 11, 1970, the powerful Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center propelling astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert on what was intended ... more |
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 BepiColombo Earth flyby enables unique instrument scan of Moon  
Choosing rocks on Mars to bring to EarthParis (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what would you choose? This question is becoming reality, as ESA opens a call for scientists to join a NASA team working to determine which mart ... more  |
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover gets its wheels and air brakesKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Final assembly and testing of NASA's Perseverance rover continues at Kennedy Space Center in Florida as the July launch window approaches. In some of the last steps required prior to stacking the sp ... more 
Researchers zero in on Near-Earth Asteroid deflection simulations ahead of breakthrough missionWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2020 The simulation tests are currently in full swing, as the astrophysicist community is looking forward to the so-called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission - the first kinetic impact defle ... more  
Spot BepiColombo during its 'goodbye flyby'Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 On 10 April, BepiColombo will be visible to amateur and professional astronomers during its first - and only - Earth flyby, as the spacecraft makes its way to Mercury, the innermost planet of the So ... more 
Why is BepiColombo back?Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 BepiColombo is on its way to Mercury, but for some reason that brings it back to Earth. On 10 April 2020, BepiColombo will make a flyby of Earth, coming within just a couple of thousand kilometres o ... more  
Swinging for the Space FencePeterson AFB OH (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 The 20th Space Control Squadron Detachment 4 at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama manages a fence. But not just any fence. A Space Fence. I know what you're thinking...is it actually a giant fence in space? ... more |
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If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what would you choose? This question is becoming reality, as ESA opens a call for scientists to join a NASA team working to determine which martian samples should be collected and stored by the Perseverance rover set to launch this Summer.
Perseverance is a standalone mission seeking signs of habitable conditions on our neighbour planet ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads - with nine science and technology instruments - to the Moon's South Pole in 2022, to help lay the foundation for human expeditions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024.
The payloads, which include instruments to assess the composition of the lunar surface, test precision landing technolog ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
The ice giant Uranus' unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane, which astronomers believe is a vestige of how our Solar System formed from a spinning disc of gas and dust. Most of the planets in our Solar System also rotate in the same direction, with their poles orientated perpendic ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
Future technologies that could image Exo Planets, enable quicker trips to Mars and send robots to explore ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC). The program, which invests in early-stage technology ideas from NASA, industry and academic researchers across the country, has selected 23 potentially revolutionary concepts with a total award value of $7 milli ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:50 p.m. (11:50 a.m. PDT), approximately 300 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, marking the end of the company's 20th contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. The spacecraft returned more than 4,000 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo.
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2020 
China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
During the March 9 launch of a Long March-3B rocket carrying a satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, a booster was equipped with parachutes and control devices.
After the booster separated from the rocke ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission, which is planned to launch in 2022, will travel to an asteroid named Psyche, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid is of particular interest in that it is rich in metal and may be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of the sun's planetary system.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020  Lockheed Martin was awarded a $22.4 million contract for work on the Layered Laser Defense system prototype onboard a Navy littoral combat ship, the Department of Defense announced.
The deal, announced Monday by the Pentagon, funds integration, demonstration, testing and operation of the LLD weapon system on board a vessel while the ship is underway.
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 Tehran (AFP) April 1, 2020 
Iran warned the US Wednesday that it was leading the Middle East to disaster in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic after it deployed Patriot air defence missiles to Iraq.
Washington had been in talks with Baghdad about the proposed deployment since January but it was not immediately clear whether it had secured its approval or not.
Iran, which wields huge influence in its western neig ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2020 
The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants - Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. Their heat source has been one of the great mysteries of planetary science.
New analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds a viable explanation for what's keeping ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Through a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewandte Chemie published the findings, which provide a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors at the nanoscale - hundreds of times smaller than the typical human cell.
"Nanoscale motors have tremendous potential for applications in biosensing, in building synthe ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
A team from the University of Adelaide in South Australia are behind a new type of deformable mirror that could increase the sensitivity of ground-based gravitational wave detectors reaching into space.
Gravitational waves are faint ripples in space time caused by distant events like collisions between black holes or neutron stars.
These cosmic waves are detected at places like the A ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
No matter where we look, the same rules apply everywhere in space: countless calculations of astrophysics are based on this basic principle. A recent study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard, however, has thrown this principle into question. Should the measured values be confirmed, this would toss many assumptions about the properties of the universe overboard. The results are published in ... more |
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 Mendon UT (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
A new fully unmanned yard truck solution combines the expertise of four companies: Autonomous Solutions, Phantom Auto, FANUC America Corporation, and Terberg
"The combination of these four leading companies brings an autonomy solution that has never been more needed in the logistics sector to lower costs and increase safety and efficiency." said Mel Torrie, founder and CEO of ASI.
A ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
The Air Force Research Laboratory has set up the Air Force's first high-energy laser weapon system overseas for a 12-month field assessment. The Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) Office located here is leading the project.
"The receiving combatant command will utilize this system as an operational asset against small unmanned aircraft systems for the durat ... more |
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